Word: gayatri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parliamentary election, the Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur ran up the biggest majority vote of any candidate-192,909 votes out of 246,516 cast. In the latest parliamentary elections last February, 28 princes won sizable parliamentary victories, only nine of them Congress Party members...
...there was plenty of evidence to support him. In Uttar Pradesh, four people were shot dead in riots; in Kashmir, candidates opposed to the government claimed they were kidnaped by police. In Jaipur, where the Maharani of Jaipur was running against the Congress Party machine under her maiden name. Gayatri Devi, local politicos found another Gayatri Devi to run against her as an independent in order to split her vote. At a New Delhi rally, an onlooker hurled a shoe at a poet reciting verses onstage in praise of a Congress nominee; the shoe missed, but in the resultant melee...
Just outside New Delhi, in low bamboo enclosures paved with dried cow dung, 400 Hindu pundits and priests have gathered this month to recite the Vedic prayer Gayatri Japan 10 million times. Night and day, squatting under TV lights beside shrines and ceremonial fires that they feed with the liquid butter called ghee, they raise their voices, powerfully amplified by loudspeakers, to the circling planets above. For according to India's astrologers, under the conjunction of the planets due early next month, the earth will be shattered by quakes, floods, air crashes, revolutions and wars, in what could...
...turbaned and mustached peasants of northwest India's Rajasthan state, it was a taste of old times. Through their villages, in a 1948 Buick that scattered peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come...